BROTHERS: Tigray region, Ethiopia: This ancient tribe of over 80,000 Jews were the descendants of those who had fled Jerusalem more than 2,500 years ago … and smuggle their Jewish brethren from the refugee camp to the Sudanese coast. Damian Lewis: Spy Wars s1e8: Exodus, History 2019
CAUCUSES 31: A small town in south-west France. It’s five in the morning … 300 Gendarmes are on a war footing in what is the largest ever operation against the Georgian Mafia … This is operation code-name Caucuses 31 – the purpose is to break up and arrest the gang of Georgian gangsters responsible for burglaries and robberies in the region. The French Connection: Inside the New Mafias, Youtube 2017
CELESTE: ‘The code name for the operation to kill Dag Hammarskjold was Operation Celeste.’ Storyville: Murder in the Bush: Cold Case Hammarskjold, transcriber, BBC 2019
CHAOS: June 1975: Report to the President by the Commission on CIA Activities within the United States: file on 7,200 Americans, names of 300,000 people and organisations. ABC Nightly News 10th June 1975
CHALICE: Just the latest in a series of sex gang cases that have come to court … Telford Police have been running Operation Chalice for almost a year. The Hunt for Britain’s Sex Gangs, Channel 4 2013
CHECKMATE: IBM’s Global Pandemic Initiative with World Health Organisation and the CDC. The Human Microchipping Agenda – Hypnotised Into the Mainframe by the Science of Gradualism, We the People Will Not Be Chipped online, lecture Alternative View III
CHIFFON: A secret meeting takes place in Londonderry between the IRA and a mysterious MI5 officer. The officer was running a top secret MI5 operation codenamed Chiffon. Peter Taylor, The MI5 Spy and the IRA: Operation Chiffon, BBC 2023
Culminated in the Good Friday Agreement 25 years ago. ibid.
CHROMITE: To launch a counter-attack and cut the North Korean army off from their supply lines, selecting the port of Inchon … The spy and his team working behind military lines. Edge of War s1e2: MacArthur’s Great Gamble, 2012
CONDOR: Last year Kissinger was enjoying a trip to Paris when a French judge served him with a subpoena to answer questions about US involvement in Chile thirty years ago. That issue was Operation Condor: a campaign of murder and torture conducted by the regime of Augusto Pinochet. The Trials of Henry Kissinger, 2002
COUNTRYMAN: Police corruption: the fourth and largest investigation. World in Action: Cleaning Up the Yard, ITV 1982
Once the Yard took over they seized all Countryman’s secret information and witness statements. They covered at least 84 Metropolitan officers suspected of corruption, and unchecked allegations against a further 107 officers. This information was stored on computers … Scotland Yard was never intended to see them. ibid.
CREVICE: 7/7: We reviewed the clearly fabricated CCTV image at Luton Station, and the as yet unidentified Jaguar car taking part in the operation; there was no recognizable CCTV pictures of the alleged bombers at Kings Cross before bombs were detonated. We learnt also that alleged bombers Mohammed Siddique Khan and Shehzad Tanweer were MI5 assets, working for the security services during Operation Crevice. RichPlanet online: 7/7 Ripple Effect II part II, Richard D Hall
CROSSROADS: The Bikinians had barely left in 1946 when Operation Crossroads [US] Taskforce One descended on their Atoll. (Nuclear & Operations) Ghost Fleet of Bikini Atoll
DALET: Plan Dalet was about securing the borders of Israel by cleansing, expelling, and destroying Palestinian towns, villages and urban neighbourhoods. The plan was implemented by the Zionist armed forces. The Zionist Story, 2009
DARKSTAR: Unmanned UAV. UFO Files s1e6: Area 51: Beyond Top Secret, History 2004
DARWIN TREE of LIFE: To collect and store samples of every one of the 60,000 species of plant, animal and insect that survive in the British Isles today. Natural History Museum: World of Wonder s1e3, Channel 5 2021
DEEP SCAN: The largest sonar investigation in the Loch’s history. Loch Ness Monster: Missing Evidence, Channel 5 2014
DESERT STORM: Gulf War: the definitive demonstration of air power and war. Secrets of War s7e1: The Gulf War: Steel Rain, History 1998
DEVIL’S HEAD: By the summer of 1998 the FBI [Chicago] had ... Operation Devil’s Head. Gangland s2e1: Maniacal, History 2008
DEW WORM: Shortly after Hollis’s visit, I travelled to Canada myself. The DEW WORM microphones, which had lain undisturbed in the walls of the Soviet Embassy since 1956, were suddenly dug out by a team of Russian sweepers. Peter Wright, Spycatcher p268
EAGLE CLAW: 1980 President Jimmy Carter ordered an ultra-clandestine mission – Operation Eagle Claw – in an effort to rescue fifty-two US embassy employees held captive in Iran for nearly six months. America's Book of Secrets, H2 2014
ENDURING FREEDOM: President Bush approves a plan using the CIA as a lead element in a war. Operation Enduring Freedom is the invasion of Afghanistan. CIA Declassified: The Fortress of War, Yesterday 2014
FAIR PLAY: Pakistan: Zia mounts his coup ominously codenamed Fair Play. Infamous Assassinations: Zia Ul-Haq
FAREWELL: The French Intelligence services … made contact with [Vladimir] Vetrov in Moscow … ‘He put a bundle of documents like that into his hands’ … The DST believed these documents were just the tip of the iceberg … codenamed Farewell. Damian Lewis: Spy Wars s1e6: Trojan Horse, History 2019
FAST & FURIOUS: One of America’s biggest law-enforcement scandals for a generation. Operation Fast and Furious involved agents from the Department of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms or ATF deliberately allowing guns to be smuggling from the United States to Mexico. Sky News 25th March 2016
FOREST: The Family investigation: task force Operation Forest commences 11 December 1989: ‘We had folders, we had my report, we had a phone book and I think we had one car allocated: that was the total resourcing for Operation Forest. The Cult of the Family I, detective Lex le Man, Sky Crime 2020
FORT: It’s 5 a.m. in West Bromwich. Detective constable Mike Wright is on his way to arrest a man he believes is involved in human trafficking and may have breached an anti-slavery court order. Mike’s part of a West Midlands police team carrying out the biggest ever investigation into modern slavery: Operation Fort. Panorama: The Hunt for Britain’s Slave Gangs, East European dude, BBC 2019
FORTITUDE: The Americans orchestrated a gigantic deceptive military operation called Operation Fortitude with a decoy army in Dover. D-Day Sacrifice, National Geographic 2014